Arrives October. Autumn enters fully and it is already recreating to pick up a book and start reading under cover. there goes this selection of 6 novelties of very varied readings for all tastes: historical, black, mystery and romantic. We take a look.
Revolution — Arturo Perez-Reverte
October 4
Not a year without a novel by Pérez-Reverte, who lately chains them. This news from the writer and academic tells the story of a man, three women, a revolution and a treasure. The revolution is that of Mexico that they carried out Emiliano Zapata and Francisco Villa, better known by Pancho Villa. The treasure is the fifteen thousand twenty-peso gold coins that were stolen from a bank in Ciudad Juárez in May 1911. The protagonist and robber is Martin Garrett Ortiz, a young Spanish mining engineer, whose life changes forever that day, being in his hotel, he heard the first distant shot and went out to see what was happening.
Without soul. The deed of Simon de Montfort — Sebastian Roa
October 5
Sebastian Roa brings out a new historical novel that takes us to the 1206th century, to XNUMX, which stars in the royal figure of Simon de Montfort. After three years in a dungeon in the Syrian desert, de Montfort returns to Normandy. But he has paid a very expensive price: the renunciation of his own soul and a horrible act whose consequences will haunt him beyond life. Anxious to get there, Simon travels through a changing world until he is reunited with his wife, Alice de Montmorency, and with a home that no longer seems like theirs and that will affect their marriage, as well as bad fortune, remorse, fall from grace and death. imminent war between France and England.
riccardino —Andrea Camilleri
October 6
The posthumous novel de Andrea Camilleri, which ends the series about the commissioner Except Montalbano. It tells the story of a young director of a bank branch of Vigàta that is murdered by a motorist. Commissioner Montalbano wants to solve the case in the shortest time possible. But what at first seemed like a settling of accounts for reasons of honor, turns out to be a much more complex case to unravel.
Camilleri outlined this novel between 2004 and 2005 and it was taken up again in 2016, but it was already published posthumously in 2020. So it will remain as literary testament of a revered author in the genre and one of the most popular and followed.